The Big Book Of Being Rude: 7000 Slang Insults - Hardcover

Green, Jonathon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304368253 ISBN 13: 9780304368259

Publisher: Orion, 2006

Synopsis

With more than 7,000 zingers, the right crushing retort is always at hand! No more thinking of an apt reply after it's too late: just store up a collection of choice rejoinders from over 1,000 ways to call somebody a fool and 600 ways to say someone's acting stupid. Pick from hundreds of little-known terms for know-it-alls, egotists, flatterers, and nags. Really want to hit below the belt? Try a politically incorrect insult that zaps somebody for being too fat or thin, too young or old, or too socially unacceptable, sexually inept, or spiritually impoverished. So from now on, the weird, fussy, boring, loathsome and intolerable, or merely irritating had better watch out!

About this title

Book Description

Increase your repertoire of insults, invective and put-downs with the help of The Big Book of Being Rude ¿ a companion volume to the best-selling Big Book of Filth, brimming with poison and profanity.

About the Author

Jonathon Green is Britain¿s leading lexicographer of slang. His many credits include the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Slang Down the Ages, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, The Cassell Dictionary of Slang (published to great acclaim in December 1998), and most recently, the best-selling Big Book of Filth, a survey of 6500 sex slang words and phrases. Jonathon Green lives in North London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0304368253
• ISBN 13: 9780304368259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384